Despite the nation’s progress on job creation, America’s youngest workers continue to struggle with an unemployment rate that is twice as high
as the rate for the general population. For young high school graduates, the unemployment rate is 17.9 percent, while the underemployment rate is a shocking 33.7 percent—more than 10 points higher than before the Great Recession. Unemployment and underemployment
means anxiety, poverty, and broken dreams for young people. The consequences of this crisis ripple throughout our economy—causing lasting
scars for wages and productivity, eroding our tax base and reducing government revenue, while forcing increased spending on social services and criminal justice.
The Employ Young Americans Now Act will provide $5.5 billion in immediate funding to states and localities to employ 1 million young Americans between the ages
of 16 and 24, and provide job training to hundreds of thousands of young Americans.
Under this bill, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) would provide $4 billion in grants to states and local governments to:

Despite the nation’s progress on job creation, America’s youngest workers continue to struggle with an unemployment rate that is twice as high as the rate for the general population. For young high school graduates, the unemployment rate is 17.9 percent,
while the underemployment rate is a shocking 33.7 percent—more than 10 points higher than before the Great Recession. Unemployment and underemployment means anxiety, poverty, and broken dreams for young people. The consequences of this crisis ripple throughout
our economy—causing lasting scars for wages and productivity, eroding our tax base and reducing government revenue, while forcing increased spending on social services and criminal justice.

This week, June 19 – 25, is Pollinator Awareness Week! We will be celebrating pollinators and sharing with others the vitality they bring to our ecosystem and the urgency
in addressing the Environmental Protection Agency’s conditional registration of neonicotinoids and its’ impact on honey bees and other pollinators.

In our capacity as Co-Chairs of the
Congressional Full Employment Caucus, we request that you join us on this important letter highlighting the weak start to Trump’s jobs record and urging him to take action to reverse these trends.

In our capacity as Co-Chairs of the
Congressional Full Employment Caucus, we request that you join us on this important letter highlighting the weak start to Trump’s jobs record and urging him to take action to reverse these trends.